Recall · 23V158000
Honda recalled 6 models over seat belts
448,613
Vehicles covered
6
Models
14
Model years
March 9, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS:FRONT:BUCKLE ASSEMBLY
- The defect
- Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) is recalling certain 2017-2020 CR-V, 2018-2019 Accord and Accord Hybrid, 2018-2020 Odyssey, 2019 Insight, and 2019-2020 Acura RDX vehicles. A manufacturing issue with the front seat belts may cause the seat belt buckle channel to interfere with the release button, preventing the seat belt buckle from latching.
- What it can cause
- An unlatched seat belt cannot properly restrain the seat occupant during a crash, increasing their risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the driver and front passenger seat belt buckle release buttons or the buckle assemblies as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 18, 2023. Owners may contact Honda customer service at 1-888-234-2138. Honda's numbers for this recall are NDA, QDB, BDC, MDD, LD9. TDF, FDG, ODH, YDI, ZDE.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.nhtsa.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 448,613 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 97% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2017 to 2020, so the oldest vehicles on it were 6 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Honda vehicles have been recalled over the seat belts 14 times before this, most recently in November 2021 as 21V900000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 14 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 11,290 complaints with NHTSA, 4,823 of them before this campaign was filed. 144 of those name the seat belts, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in March 2017, 6 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 19 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V423000 (back over prevention), 26V332000 (air bags), 26V227000 (air bags), 24V064000 (air bags).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) with NHTSA on March 9, 2023 as campaign 23V158000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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